// senior infrastructure, cloud & virtualization consulting

One guy. Every layer of the stack, bare metal to Kubernetes.

Founded by Greg Dickie in 2001, just a guy enterprises has carried clients from ClearCase and Solaris through to Proxmox, Ceph, AWS, and Kubernetes. We design, optimize, secure, and modernize infrastructure — not just keep it running. No account managers, no junior bench, just the person who does the work.

active engagements updated 4m ago
VMware → Proxmox migration wk 3/4 on track
Ceph cluster deployment wk 6/8 on track
AWS Identity Center rollout wk 1/5 scoping
Kubernetes HA cluster, GitLab CI/CD wk 2/6 on track
Netskope SASE + Firepower cleanup wk 2/6 on track
2001
founded in Montreal by Greg Dickie
25 yrs
military systems to indie game studios
zero
subcontracted engagements
1
guy, deliberately

What we take on

Specializing in lots of things, honestly. Architecture, strategy, and modernization across Linux, virtualization, cloud, storage, networking, and observability — not just server support.

01

Linux systems administration

Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, and Rocky Linux deployment and hardening, performance tuning, and patch and lifecycle management across the fleet — including legacy Samba/AD interop most consultants won't touch.

02

Automation & cluster computing

Ansible-driven configuration management, zero-touch deployment pipelines from bare metal to production, and Slurm cluster administration for HPC workloads.

03

Virtualization & Proxmox

VMware vSphere design and administration, and VMware-to-Proxmox migrations — cluster deployment, high availability, and Ceph/NFS/iSCSI storage integration.

04

Storage: Ceph & enterprise NAS/SAN

Ceph cluster design, CephFS, performance tuning, and capacity planning, plus NAS/SAN architecture and backup consolidation for QNAP and enterprise storage.

05

Cloud & hybrid AWS

Landing zone design, IAM Identity Center and access reviews, EC2 deployment, and hybrid AWS + on-prem connectivity, migration, and disaster recovery.

06

Kubernetes & DevOps

Kubernetes and MicroK8s cluster deployment, container migration, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code for repeatable, automated delivery.

07

Network infrastructure & security

Switching and segmentation across whatever's in the rack, from Ubiquiti and MikroTik through Aruba and FS to Cisco gear, VLAN design, Cisco Firepower/FTD deployment and rule-base cleanup, Netskope SASE rollouts, and IP address management, discovery, and topology documentation — whatever the network's actually built on.

08

Monitoring & observability

Zabbix deployment and alert tuning, dashboarding, and capacity trend reporting — built to reduce incidents, not just log them.

09

Security & compliance

Linux and cloud hardening, least-privilege IAM design, and SSL lifecycle management — the basics done right, not audit paperwork.

How an engagement runs

Four stages, the same for a two-week audit or a six-month rebuild.

01 / SCOPE

Walk the environment

We read the configs, ask the annoying questions, and tell you honestly what's actually broken versus what's just old.

02 / PLAN

Write the runbook

A concrete plan with rollback steps, maintenance windows, and the risks called out — not a slide deck.

03 / BUILD

Do the work

The engineer who scoped it is the one at the keyboard. Progress updates go in the status board, not a status meeting.

04 / HANDOFF

Leave it documented

Diagrams, credentials rotated, and a document your next hire can actually follow at 2am.

Packaged & ongoing

Some of this is project work. Some of it's better as a standing arrangement.

ONGOING

Fractional infrastructure admin

Senior expertise without a full-time hire: monthly health reviews, strategic planning, escalation support, vendor management, and capacity planning.

PACKAGE

VMware → Proxmox migration

Assessment, migration planning, a pilot migration, full production cutover, and knowledge transfer to your team.

PACKAGE

Ceph deployment

Design workshop, hardware sizing, cluster deployment, performance validation, and an operations runbook you can actually hand off.

ASSESSMENT

Infrastructure health & cloud readiness

Executive summary, risk and capacity review, security findings, and a recommended roadmap — or a cloud migration plan with cost estimate.

Who we've worked with

Game studios, VR pioneers, and everything in between — from small startups with no customers yet to large companies with military ones.

Meta4 Games · Quatric · Ultra Electronics/Marconi Technologies · Greenlite · nGenious Studio · Centre PHI · Felix & Paul Studios · OMG Meditate · Tribal Nova · Woozworld · Nakisa · Nexio · Haivision · MontrealCritters · SignalMatrix · 36Pix · XtraNormal · CM Labs · Algolith · Ziplocal · Artificial Mind & Movement · Hyperchip · Max-T · Sportlogiq

news

Space Explorers: The ISS Experience

Proud to have been part of the infrastructure behind Felix & Paul Studios' Emmy-winning VR series filmed aboard the International Space Station.

Tell us what's broken.

Send a short description of the problem or project. We reply within one business day with whether it's a fit and roughly what it'll take.